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They rose, and smothering their disappointment under well-bred phrases, took most polite leave of the dignified old lady, who was heartily glad to be rid of them. "The disagreeable old thing to talk so of the Intendant!" exclaimed Madame Couillard, spitefully, "when her own nephew, and heir in the Seigniory of Tilly, is the Intendant's firmest friend and closest companion."
Why, if it had been a smothering instead of a wedding, Mrs Flintwinch cast about in her mind with great pains for this form of expression, 'I couldn't have said a word upon it, against them two clever ones. 'In good faith, I believe so. 'And so you may, Arthur. 'Affery, what girl was that in my mother's room just now? 'Girl? said Mrs Flintwinch in a rather sharp key.
Bob and I saw that she was bent on smothering her memory in that antidote for all ills of heart and soul work. Her office life was simplicity itself. She spoke to no one except Bob, save in connection with such business matters of the firm's as I might send her by one of the clerks to attend to.
If he had been alone, he could have watched her dance on for hours, and wished that she would never stop; but there were other men in the tent, and he had a maddening desire to snatch the girl in his arms, smothering her in his burnous, and rushing away with her into the desert. Her dancing astonished him.
I stood by the window in the patio until I heard a voice as soft and sweet as an angel's whisper on the other side of the bars. I could see only a faint, white clad shape inside; and, true to Fergus, I pulled the collar of my cloak high up, for it was July in the wet seasons, and the nights were chilly. And, smothering a laugh as I thought of the tongue-tied Fergus, I began to talk.
I suppose Terry at Constantinople must have got grandly stirred up, also. Pity he can't see you to thank you for saving him from probably going mad. By the way," he added, while looking keenly at Coleman, " the Wainwrights don't seem to be smothering you with gratitude? " Oh, as much as I deserve-sometimes more," answered Coleman. " My exploit was more or less of a fake, you know.
"The lies sown by one single man have produced a deadly weed that is smothering this miserable house! You to be sure, what can you know of our father? I knew him; I have been present when he and his friends, the philosophers, have laughed to scorn things which not only you Christians but even pious heathen regard as sacred.
Phronsie sighed again. But as Polly approved of royalty so highly, she immediately lent herself to the anticipations of the pleasure before her, smothering all lesser considerations.
He knew the condition of Simonides' mind that he was hesitating on the verge of belief. He could see the massive face weighed down by solemn reflection. He noticed him casting inquiring glances at the sun, as seeking the cause of the darkness. Nor did he fail to notice the solicitude with which Esther clung to him, smothering her fears to accommodate his wishes.
She made us feel as if we were infants; said she thought smothering in a trunk for an hour was punishment enough for anybody. She just talked!" "And talked!" Peggy added. "She said that we'd so wrecked Fraulein's nerves Peg and I that Fraulein was leaving the school wasn't coming back after Easter." "Really? Is that true, Peggy?" "That we've wrecked her nerves? Hardly.
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